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There was a bit of a mishap unwrapping one of the scarves I dyed using avocado dye. I was using a pair of scissors to snip the threads binding one of the scarves, and I accidentally caught a bit of the silk, snipping a small hole into the scarf. Dang. Now what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nuno felting to the rescue!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except I that I wanted to use something nice and soft, like merino wool, which I didn’t have on hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I saved the dye. I poured off the dye into several quart jars, and set them in my Minnesota refrigerator, which is to say, I put them in the garage. Then I went online to the good folks at Dharma Trading<\/a> and ordered some undyed merino wool roving and waited for it to arrive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah, it looks a little weird. Kinda like intestines?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Once it arrived, and I had some time to move into this whole project, I brought the dye back into the house, refilled my canning pot, and started the merino wool dyeing experiment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the wool dried, which took a surprisingly long time, and I again found the time to work on these creative endeavors, I brought the scarf out to be felted. First problem was that the scarf was 30″x30″, and the largest piece of bubble wrap I had was 24″. This project, which started on March 7, 2020, was now being worked on March 28, 2020 which was a whole world and a COVID-19 pandemic away from where we were a mere three weeks earlier. So it wasn’t like I could just go out shopping for bubble wrap. Also, it seems like there’s not many shopping options for bubble wrap that is big enough for a whole 30″x30″ scarf. So now what? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had bought a roll of flooring underlayment to use for creating resists for felting vessels and bags, so while it doesn’t have the same bubble feature, it does have a bit of texture and was definitely big enough to cut two 40″x40″ pieces to use for rolling the scarf for the felting process. So I went with that, and began the process of adding the wool. In addition to the avocado dyed merino, I added some of the undyed merino wool, a tiny bit of Leicester curly locks, and gold silk threads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n